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T-Mobile Enhances Project 10Million Program and Announces New Partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs to Boost Digital Access for Even More Students

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BELLEVUE, Wash. — Since 2020, T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS)’s $10.7 26, qualifying kindergarten through 12 th grade student families who sign up for P10M with T-Mobile will now receive 200GB per year for five years, twice the previous 100GB allotment. but even with that progress the need for connectivity has only continued to rise.

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Q&A: Tracy Smith on the Value of a Team Approach to Digital Equity

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Q&A: Tracy Smith on the Value of a Team Approach to Digital Equity. Mon, 11/11/2019 - 12:34. Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, like many of the nation’s public school systems, is seeing increases in student poverty rates and English language proficiency — trends that could make any existing digital divides worse.

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Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms

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Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms. Thu, 11/07/2019 - 15:06. School districts can’t just invest in laptops, mobile devices and other hardware, then call it a day. EDTECH: What challenges related to digital equity are you facing in your district? It’s a digital divide too.

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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

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Similarly, during the 2019-2020 school year, San Antonio Union School District (California) created the first-ever student board member position. The district invested in mobile hotspot vehicles that are deployed daily across eight areas of town.

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Championing Students to be a Force for Good in Their Communities

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Brigitta Witt Vice President of Social Impact and Sustainability at T-Mobile One of the most rewarding educator experiences is witnessing students become agents of change and positively impacting their communities with their own creativity, grit and innovation. EdSurge: How did T-Mobile's Changemaker Challenge get started?

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Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up

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After all, in October 2019 the nonprofit EducationSuperHighway declared that nearly 99 percent of U.S. Connect All Students: How States and School Districts Can Close the Digital Divide” is a follow up to a June analysis by Boston Consulting Group and Common Sense. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. That Broadband Gap Bar?

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The Pandemic Will Leave More Students Unprepared For College. Developmental Education Must Help.

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suffer on the no-internet side of the digital divide , according to the Federal Communications Commission. And this spring, 60 percent of low-income parents expressed that their children are likely to experience at least one digital obstacle doing their K-12 homework online. Despite in 2019 the U.S. poverty rate being 10.5

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